BOOK CLUB (2018) Cast & Crew
Director Bill Holderman, and cast Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Candice Bergen
BILL HOLDERMAN (Director, Writer, Producer) is a highly respected and sought after screenwriter and producer who recently made his directorial debut with the feature film BOOK CLUB, starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen. Holderman co-wrote the film alongside Erin Simms. The film is set to be released by Paramount Pictures on May 18th, 2018.
Holderman's recent independent producing credits include: WHAT THEY HAD starring Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Blythe Danner, Josh Lucas and Robert Forster, which will be released by Bleecker Street on October 12th; and OLD MAN AND THE GUN starring Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, and Sissy Spacek, which will be distributed by Fox Searchlight next year.
Holderman also recently produced the BBC/PBS multi-part music documentary AMERICAN EPIC executive produced by T Bone Burnett, Jack White, and Robert Redford. The project debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and includes performances by Jack White, NAS, Beck, Alabama Shakes, Elton John, The Avett Brothers, Rhiannon Giddens, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and many more...
Previously, Holderman wrote and produced A WALK IN THE WOODS starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, and Emma Thompson, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Broad Green Pictures, becoming one of the highest grossing Sundance films of the last decade.
Prior to venturing out on his own, Holderman spent 14 years at Robert Redford's Wildwood Enterprises. As Redford's producing partner, he successfully guided Wildwood and Redford to some of the most productive years in the company's storied history including a wide spectrum of films ranging from indie hit ALL IS LOST to franchise juggernaut CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER.
Holderman was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America and a graduate of Northwestern University.
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Since her screen debut in Lovers and Other Strangers, DIANE KEATON (Diane) has proven to be an extremely versatile actress, director and producer. Her acting career spans over twenty-five movie greats, including THE GODFATHER TRILOGY, LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR, ANNIE HALL, for which she received a best actress Academy Award, and the smash hits FATHER OF THE BRIDE and THE FIRST WIVES CLUB. Ms. Keaton also received Academy Award nominations for her role in the film SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE, REDS and for her poignant performance in MARVIN'S ROOM. Thus, making history as the only actress to have had an Academy Award nomination once in every decade.
Ms. Keaton has also received praise as a director, beginning with her work on HEAVEN and culminating with the critically acclaimed UNSTRUNG HEROES.
Ms. Keaton won the Golden Globe for her performance in SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE, written and directed by Nancy Meyers, and co-starring, Jack Nicholson. She also received National Board of Review award for this performance.
As a producer, she is proud to have worked with Gus Van Sant on his critically acclaimed film, Elephant, which won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes film festival. She has starred in and executive produced the Lifetime TV movie, ON THIN ICE, which dealt with a mother's methamphetamine addiction for which she won a Prism Award for her compelling performance. She directed and executive produced, the TV pilot Pasadena for Fox Television. She has also directed and co-starred in HANGING UP, with Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow and Walter Matthau, and contributed performances to THE OTHER SISTER, directed by Garry Marshall. She starred in BECAUSE I SAID SO and MAD MONEY opposite Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes.
She edited a book which showcases her collection of amateur clown paintings, for Lookout and Powerhouse books, entitled "Clown Paintings". Her fifth published book with Rizzoli is titled "Casa Romantica".
Shifting effortlessly from comedy to drama and back again, Diane Keaton continues to captivate and delight her audiences with every project she devotes herself to.
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JANE FONDA (Vivian) was born in New York City in 1937, the daughter of Henry Fonda and Frances Seymour Fonda. She attended the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, and Vassar College. In her early twenties, Fonda studied with renowned acting coach Lee Strasberg and became a member of the Actors Studio in New York.
Fonda is a two-time Academy Award winner (Best Actress in 1971 for KLUTE and in 1978 for COMING HOME), a three-time Golden Globe winner, and was the 2014 recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award. Along with starring roles in dozens of highly acclaimed productions, Fonda also took on responsibilities as a film and television producer. Her credits include COMING HOME, THE CHINA SYNDROME, NINE TO FIVE, ROLLOVER, ON GOLDEN POND, THE MORNING AFTER and THE DOLLMAKER.
In 2007, Fonda received an Honorary Palme d'Or from the Cannes Film Festival, one of only three people ever to be granted this honor until then. In 2009, she received a Tony Award nomination for her role in Moises Kaufman's 33 VARIATIONS on Broadway.
Fonda revolutionized the fitness industry with the release of JANE FONDA'S WORKOUT in 1982. She followed with the production of 23 home exercise videos, 13 audio recordings, and seven bestselling books - selling 17 million copies all together. The original JANE FONDA'S WORKOUT video remains the top grossing home video of all time.
In 2011, Fonda appeared in ET SI ON VIVAIT TOUS ENSEMBLE, a French comedy, followed by PEACE, LOVE & MISUNDERSTANDING, co-starring Catherine Keener. She appeared as Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels's THE BUTLER in 2013, and with Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell in BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY. In 2014, she starred in director Shawn Levy's THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU, with Tina Fey and Jason Bateman.
For three seasons, Fonda appeared as media mogul Leona Lansing in an Emmy nominated performance in Aaron Sorkin's THE NEWSROOM on HBO. Most recently, she appeared in YOUTH, written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino (director and co-writer of Italy's Academy Award winning Best Foreign Language Film, THE GREAT BEAUTY). She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance.
Fonda also stars in Netflix's hit series GRACE AND FRANKIE which premiered its fourth season in January 2018 and recently announced its fifth season. She received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the 2017 Emmys. Her latest film OUR SOULS AT NIGHT, co-starring Robert Redford, premiered on Netflix in Fall 2017. The co-stars were honored with Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement in September 2017 at the 74th Venice Film Festival. Fonda world-premiered JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS, a documentary chronicling her life and her activism, at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. She will next be seen on the big screen in Paramount's upcoming comedy BOOK CLUB in which she stars alongside Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, and Candice Bergen.
Most recently, Jane celebrated her 80th birthday by raising $1.3 million for her nonprofit, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential, which works to lower the teen pregnancy rate in the state of Georgia and improve the overall health and well-being of young people in the state to ensure a more powerful future for us all.
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CANDICE BERGEN (Sharon) is "a beautiful actress who projects intelligence, humor, vulnerability, and self-reliance-all more or less simultaneously," wrote critic Vincent Canby in the New York Times. Candice proved this every week for 10 years as 'Murphy' on the critically acclaimed CBS comedy MURPHY BROWN, for which she received five Emmy awards and two Golden Globe awards. This summer Candice will go into production on the much anticipated revival, which will air on CBS in the fall. Candice had earlier received extraordinary critical and audience responses for her performance as a college student caught up in turmoil of a campus revolt in GETTING STRAIGHT, as the personification of the clean cut all-American dream girl of the '40's in Mike Nichol's CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, and as the newly liberated wife in STARTING OVER for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her most recent film appearance was the romantic comedy "Home Again" with Reese Witherspoon.
The daughter of Frances and the late Edgar Bergen, Candice attended the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles, the Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., as well as school in Switzerland, and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in art history and creative writing. As a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Candice would frequently commute to New York for modeling assignments, and was still attending college when she made her motion picture debut as 'Lakey' in THE GROUP.
Combining her acting career with an insatiable desire to see the world, Candice traveled to Formosa to star opposite Steve McQueen and Sir Richard Attenborough in Robert Wise's THE SAND PEBBLES; to Greece to appear in THE DAY THE FISH CAME OUT; and to France to star with Yves Montand in Claude LeLouche's VIVRE POUR VIVRE. She also starred in T.R. BASKIN, THE ADVENTURERS, SOLDIER BLUE, THE MAGUS, THE HUNTING PARTY, 11 HARROW HOUSE, "THE WIND AND THE LION, "BITE THE BULLET, THE DOMINO PRINCIPAL, A NIGHT FULL OF RAIN, and OLIVER'S STORY.
Additional film credits include the role of Margaret Bourke-White in Richard Attenborough's GANDHI, co-starring with Jacqueline Bisset in the George Cukor directed RICH AND FAMOUS, opposite Burt Reynolds in STICK, SWEET HOME ALABAMA with Reese Witherspoon, MISS CONGENIALITY with Sandra Bullock, BRIDE WARS, SEX & THE CITY, and a role in the remake of THE WOMAN, directed by MURPHY BROWN creator Diane English. Her next role will be in BOOK CLUB.
Candice made her Broadway debut starring as 'Darlene' in the critically acclaimed Hurly Burly directed by long-time friend Mike Nichols, which also starred William Hurt, Judith Ivey and Ron Silver. After nearly thirty years, Candice returned to Broadway in the 2012 critically acclaimed production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, alongside John Larroquette, James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury. Candice most recently appeared on Broadway in November 2014 opposite Alan Alda in Love Letters.
In addition to MURPHY BROWN, Candice's other television credits include the role of smart, sexy, dignified, lawyer Shirley Schmidt on the David E. Kelly dramedy BOSTON LEGAL which garnered her two Emmy nominations and both a Golden Globe and SAG nomination.
Candice later went on to portray Dr. Lisa Cuddy's mother in a multi-episode arc on FOX's critically acclaimed series HOUSE M.D. Candice also starred in the TV movies for CBS- MAYFLOWER MADAM, MURDER: BY REASON OF INSANITY and MARY & TIM. She was also seen in the highly rated ABC mini-series HOLLYWOOD WIVES based on the best-selling novel by Jackie Collins. In addition, Candice had two shows on The Oxygen Network: EXHALE and CANDICE CHECKS IT OUT.
Last year Candice started a company called Bergen Bags, which is a personal customization business in which she paints images and monograms on beloved handbags. All of the proceeds go to charity.
Over the years, Ms. Bergen has achieved great success in the worlds of photography and journalism. She has produced magazine articles and photographic essays filled with intelligence and wit, observing the world with a keen eye for detail and humor. She has written a cover story for New York magazine about working with Lina Wertmuller on A NIGHT FULL OF RAIN, articles about the Masia Tribe of Kenya and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, and for Playboy, an account of her four-week trip to Red China entitled "Can a Cultural Worker from Beverly Hills Find Happiness in the People's Republic of China?" She also wrote the cover story on Charlie Chaplin's return to the United States for Life magazine.
Her articles on her first film, THR GROUP; the mayhem of roller derbies; a social history of Bel Air; profiles of Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, Oscar Levant, Paul Newman and Lee Marvin; and the presidential primaries in 1968 have appeared in Esquire, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Ladies Home Journal.
Candice's autobiography, "Knock Wood", which she worked on for five years, was released in April 1984 to critical acclaim and enjoyed several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It's sequel, "A Fine Romance", was published in April, 2015 and became an instant New York Times bestseller.
Candice resides in New York with her husband Marshall Rose.
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